Swimming and Diving Hosts Senior Day Meet Friday with La Salle

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers swimming and diving returns house to the Rutgers Aquatics Center on Friday, competing at house for the primary time since October and the ultimate full house swim meet of the season. The Scarlet Knights will commemorate Senior Day, welcoming La Salle for a 5 pm meet. It will even be the group’s Letterwinners Day, with letterwinners set to be acknowledged throughout the meet.

Senior Day

Rutgers will honor eight seniors in a pregame ceremony. RU will acknowledge one diver (Sephora Ford) and 7 swimmers (Megan Fox, Grace Hagemaster, Cam Kuriger, Katherine Lang, Jillian Ruffner, Ellie Schinsky and graduate scholar Angelica Bath). The senior day ceremonies will happen on the pool deck at 4:30 pm previous to the 5 pm meet.

About Rutgers

Rutgers just lately accomplished its annual winter break coaching journey, touring to Corando, California over the break earlier this month. Prior to that, the total squad final competed on the Minnesota Invitational in early December.

The meet in opposition to La Salle would be the fifth meet for the Scarlet Knights this season. The season opened with house victories over St. Bonaventure and Fordham in October, the identical month the place RU hosted Arkansas and Miami. RU additionally traveled to No. 25 Princeton in November previous to the Minnesota Invitational.

On the diving facet, the Scarlet Knight divers are ranked eighth in probably the most just lately launched US PDCA Coaches Poll. Rutgers divers additionally competed on the Naval Academy Invite in November, with three first place finishes. Sephora Ford gained the 3-Meter and Platform Diver there, with Katerina Hoffman successful the 1-Meter Dive. Ford additionally gained the Platform Dive on the Minnesota Invitational. Bailee Sturgill and Katerina Hoffman additionally introduced house silver medals (two for Sturgill and one for Hoffman) in synchronized occasions on the USA Diving Winter Nationals.

Rutgers excelled within the classroom this fall as effectively. The group was named a Scholar All-America group by the CSCAA and had a semester GPA of three.398 with six 4.0 college students and 12 on the Dean’s List. 

Top-10 Tracker

Rutgers has set 11 new marks on this system’s all-time top-10 lists this season.  Anna Vlachou leads the best way with three. Nine of them are on the swimming facet, with two new marks on the diving boards. Three of them reached the top-3 all-time, whereas 5 of them are among the many 4 quickest.

Swimming

• Ana Hazlehurst, 400 IM: 4:16.57, Fourth
• Anna Vlachou, 100 Butterfly: 53.25, Fourth
• Anna Vlachou, 100 Free: 49.20, Third
• Emilianna Gonzalez, 50 Free: 22.40, 2^nd
• Anna Vlachou, 50 Free: 22.67, seventh
• Cameron Kuriger, 200 Butterfly: 1:59.58, Eighth
• Ana Hazlehurst, 200 IM: 2:00.41, Third
• Ellie Schinsky, 100 Butterfly: 54.01, Ninth
• Angelica Bath, 200 Back: 1:58.62, Tenth

Diving

About La Salle

La Salle is available in with one win this season, having defeated Rhode Island. The Explorers have additionally competed in opposition to Bucknell, UMass, Villanova, James Madison, Drexel, and on the Queens Fall Frenzy. La Salle continues motion over the weekend on Saturday, internet hosting Fordham.

La Salle introduced again senior Gabriela Herbreder, who earned three medals eventually yr’s A-10 Championships. Senior Tori Fenn additionally returns following a bronze medal swim on the convention meet and being part of two relay program information.

Up Next

Rutgers will journey to Big Ten foe Nebraska subsequent weekend. The Scarlet Knights head to Lincoln for 2 days on competitors – Friday, January 30, beginning at 5 pm, and Saturday, January 31, at 10 am. Rutgers will then host diving on the Rutgers Platform Invitational on Saturday, February 7, with the Big Ten Championships developing beginning on February 18.